The worst pain isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it. They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory.
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Each part in itself constitutes the whole to which it belongs.
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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.
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All too willingly man sees himself as the centre of the universe, as something not belonging to the rest of nature but standing apart as a different and higher being. Many people cling to this error and remain deaf to the wisest command ever given by a sage, the famous "Know thyself" inscribed in the temple of Delphi.
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There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them — isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?
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Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
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Virtue can only flourish amongst equals.
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
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Necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value.
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